Things rarely go as expected, leaving us feeling frustrated much of the time. This is a fact of life.
This should also be true for the characters in your story world.
Frustration (though it will appear in many forms) is what drives your plot--how a character reacts when he or she doesn't get what they want is what will keep the story moving forward, and how they deal with their frustrations will tell us a lot about them as people.
So it's safe to say that frustration is one of the key building blocks of storytelling.
No frustration? No story.
What does my character want that she's not getting?
How does she react to this?
Be Brilliant!
~Katie~
